Nobel Prize Awards

About 60 people who came to San Diego from Somalia — refugees, immigrants, naturalized citizens — gathered in a conference room in City Heights for their weekly meeting. It’s an opportunity to work out problems, strengthen community bonds, share food. This time, Friday morning, they applauded those among them who had just completed a sixth-month program to learn how to read and write English.

And they worried.

Two days earlier, President Donald Trump had endorsed a radical shift in the nation’s immigration policy. The bill would eventually cut in half the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country every year,...

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